The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-09-06
COM mER C1AL.
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hun VI VI L. > Z III. DTft.. 1861.
Business during the past week has been
somewhat quiet. The arrivals from foreign
ports consisted of the Mary Winkleman, the
Consuelo, the Discovery, and the Zealandia,
from San Francisco, and the United States
Flagship Nandalia from Callao, Peru.
The departures to foreign ports were the
W. S. Bovine, Alameda, Australia, and
Planter, for San Francisco; H. B. NJ. 5. s.
Wild Swan for Vancouver, the Discovery and
Sarah S. Ridgeway for Port Townsend; the
Velocity for Hongkong and the Zealandia
or Auckland and Sydney.
The cargoes to foreign ports during the
week, Aug. 27-Sept. 2, aggregate S23O,9I2.72.
Inter-island shipping has been doing a fair
trade for the season of the year. The carry
ing trade from different ports to Honolulu,
comprises 6520 bags sugar, 25O3 bags paddy,
2143 bags rice, 10000 feet lumber, with sun
dry other articles of domestic produce IN
smaller quantities.
The latest advices from the coast are that
sugar has advanced Is cent, which will be
welcome news to every department of bust
ness.
The s. +. Ne,cs Letter of Aug 20 says the
August business up to that date at the prod"
uce Exchange was exceedingly sluggish, the
prices of wheat having dropped from 1925
for standard No. (call board saiesl down
to S1.70 for like grade to miller; while
for off grades what little was done was effect
ed within wide range of S1.35 to Sl.50 per
Genital The same paper says of the canning
business: "Our canneries both in city and
country, are driven to their utmost capac-
ity." The Salmon run on the Columbia
River is expected to be 100000 cases less
than last year, but the run of fish in British
Columbia is large enough to make good the
efficiency.
Following are some of the market quota
tions from Williams, Dimond IL Co. s circular
of August 16:
RICE-we quote price at $500 daYs-with
FLOUR-G c Ex Fam, S.; Ell Dorado, 81; and
Crown, $3.50.
ground and rolled, S21 so per ton, fob.
BRAN-S2050 per ton, fob.
oATS-Fayi, S14O01i2M per ctl, fob; choice,
e1521. per ctl, fob
HAY-Comp wheat, $3.50 per ton, fob; comp
oat. SIS per ton. lob; large bales same as above.
LIME-Sl. 506S150 per Dbl, fob.
A pamphlet of 29 pages is to hand, containing
the Goth Annual Report of the President of the
San Francisco Produce Exchange, with Statisti-
cal Tables of the Commerce and Trade of the
State of California
The wheat crop of 1876 realized 100000 TONS
The reports from crops OF the present year indi-
cate a smaller output than that of last year.
The State legislature comes in for a rap for
falling to pass bill at last session to benefit the
grain trade of the city by providing more eco
nomical administration of the seawall and water
front.
cOunteract the disadvantage to California, as
wheat exporting state, arising out of the customs
duties imposed by the principal European i'm
porting nations upon American cereals.
Time was when nOught was thought of but
the precious metal, gold; this era has passed and
there succeeded another golden era. that of
wheat. when the tillers of the soil thought of no
other crop. Wheat is King to-day and viii re-
main so for many day to come" The diversified
agricultural products of the State are also referred
to. Among other articles, the bean has become
a staple article of cultivation. the capabilities
of the State for raising this crop being unrivaled
The counties of San Luis opfspo, Ventura and
Santa Barbara alone can raise sufficient beans
to supply the whole population of the United
States.
The produce imports at San Francisco during
the year ended June seth, 1897, were ,2s7, 12S
or. sacks flour; 13.47709l cts. wheat; 1882 ,09S
ctls barley; 4S26l6 ctls. OATS 275 l66 ctls. corn;
1885 ctls. rye; $4,000 sacks potatoes; 106,651
tons hay: 81. $50 sacks fax seed and 46 ,495 sacks
mustard seed.
The exports of grain during the same time
were: 9999lS barrels Tor about ga 1872 tons) flour
and l.. 329 .920 ctls. Tor GIG, 496 tons) wheat.
The number of grain vessels dispatched during
the year was 2S2 of which 207 were British, SIS
American and 20 Miscellaneous.